Me 262 should have been used as a bomber?

[Graham Boak]

Hitting the UK would have had little effect, not least because of the shortage of airfields. Whenever the Germans did try to gather a bomber force capable of hitting British targets, Allied airpower concentrated on their airfields to knock them out. Read the writings of Roly Beamont for an example. Had a large number of Me 262 bombers, with trained crews, been available to penetrate the Allied fighter cover over the beaches and hit the landing ships and troops hard, in co-operation with Panzer divisions in the right place at the right time, then maybe the invasion would have failed and opened possibilities for the Germans. That's a lot of suppositions, and such a fleet of Me 262s belongs in Dreamland. You might also bear in mind that the likeliest result of a failed invasion and protracted war would have been an atom bomb on Berlin or Hamburg.